 | Charles Bilton - 1866 - 264 страници
...where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight ; Linked in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well ; Till utter darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded king. Then skilful Surrey's... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 страници
...stepping where his comrade stood The instant that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight ; Linked in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearless and as well : Till utter darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded king. *... | |
 | Ebenezer Forsyth - 1867 - 148 страници
...as snow, Though charging knights like whirlwinds go, Though bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spearmen still made good...noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well ; Till utter darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded Kinf;. Then skilful Surrey's... | |
 | John Murray (publishers.) - 1867 - 546 страници
...shafts as snow. Though" charging knights as whirlwinds go, Though billmen ply the ghastly bow, Unbroken was the ring; The stubborn spearmen still made good...noble, squire like knight. As fearlessly and well ; Till utter darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded king."— ¿farmwn, canto vi.... | |
 | English poetry - 1867 - 336 страници
...blow, Unbroken was the ring; The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, 30 Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant...tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, 35 As fearlessly and well ; Till utter darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded King.... | |
 | John Murray (publishers.) - 1867 - 538 страници
...good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood The instant that he fell. Ko thought was there of dastard flight; Link'd in the...noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well ; Till utter darkness closed her wins O'er their thin host and wounded king." — Marmion, canto vi.... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 536 страници
...as snow, Though charging knights like whirlwinds go, Though bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring; The stubborn spear-men still made good...noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well ; Till utter darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and weunded King. Then skilful Surrey's... | |
 | 1868 - 736 страници
...Xot an inch of ground was lost ; not a battalion broken. As Sir Walter Scott says of Flodden — " No thought was there of dastard flight, Link'd in...noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well ; Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell." If the leading files, men and horses,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 398 страници
...where his comrade stood. The instant that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight;— Linked In the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well; Till utter darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded kins. Then skilful Surrey's sage... | |
 | A. P. A. - 1869 - 226 страници
...when flattery spoke ; Nor could their tenderest numbers bring One sigh responsive to the string." 1. "No thought was there of dastard flight: Link'd in...noble, squire like ( knight, As fearlessly and well." 2. " But there was in his troubled eye A gloomy fire ; and on his brow, Now sudden flushed — and... | |
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But yet, though thick the shafts as snow, Though charging knights like whirlwinds go, Though bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spear-men still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood,... 
